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is also regularly shown with a gubernaculum. There are abundant depictions of Fortuna holding the gubernaculum on coins, in paintings, on altars and statues or statuettes.
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The ancient rudder's different parts were distinguished by the following names: ansa, the handle; clavus, the shaft; pinna, the blade. The famous ship
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with a rudder. In the Biblical book of James, the author compares the tongue with a ship's rudder which, though physically small, makes great boasts.
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In mythology the rudder, which the goddess can steer, represents control of the changeable fortunes of life. Plato used the metaphor of turning the
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This article is about the mythological and classical depiction and meaning of rudders. For the navigational instruments through history, see
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or "Forty" is said to have had four rudders. In the Bible, Paul's ship, which was shipwrecked on Malta, had its rudders (plural) cut loose.
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A critical inquiry into the Scottish language with the view of illustrating the rise and progress of civilisation in Scotland
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is related to the word. The Old English word governail and the Scots word gouernaill are both derived from it.
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Various gods such as Tritons and Venus have been shown with a gubernaculum. It is most associated with
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Tituli Hunteriani: An Account of the Roman Stones in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
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Fortuna is depicted on around 1000 different Roman coins usually holding a gubernaculum.
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A sandstone statuette of Fortuna, the Roman god of luck, fate, fortune was found at
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Harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities
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Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery Collections: GLAHM F.43
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Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described
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rudder
rudder
government
Tessarakonteres
Fortuna
cornucopia
Tyche
Castlecary
Hunterian Museum
Glasgow
Scotland
Rudder of a Roman Boat (Romano-Germanic Museum Cologne, Germany)
Romano-Germanic Museum
Cologne
Germany
Dupondius Fortuna with gubernaculum
Dupondius
Vatican statue of Fortuna steering with her gubernaculum
Vatican
Fortuna
Statuette of the Roman goddess Fortuna, with gubernaculum (ship's rudder), Rota Fortunae (wheel of fortune) and cornucopia (horn of plenty) found near the altar at Castlecary in 1771.
Fortuna
Rota Fortunae
cornucopia
Ship of State
Gubernaculum mammalian anatomy
Gubernaculum nemitode
"Gubernaculum from Dictionary of Roman Coins"
Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described
cite book

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